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Pamphlet
1227 Ezek kc 21-1
Read
Matthew 24:4-5 Do you think Jesus was just kidding?
Notice:
This Bible Study may be offensive to tender ears,
to
those Christians who just can't imagine that anyone
who
calls himself or herself a minister or preacher of Jesus Christ,
would
knowingly mislead anyone for money, power or ego, i.e. for personal gain.
They
all seem like such nice people.
Yet,
anyone with an ounce of common sense who turns on Sunday morning TV
and
surfs the airwaves
would
have to conclude that for the most part one has to be "stupid"
to
follow some of these prancing showmen
who
openly claim that God speaks to them directly
and
gives them exclusive "words of knowledge"
that
other lesser sheep in the audience aren't privileged to hear.
Are
we as Christians supposed to just accept someone who claims to represent
Christ?
Oh
contraire, my friend!
Jesus
Himself warned us, in this final generation,
to
be careful and take heed.
Matthew
24:4-5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive
you. [5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many."
Do
you think He was just kidding?
Then
they are out there in full force,
many
of them, aren't they?
You
see, it is really easy for dynamic personalities to "deceive many"
in
these end times with such powerful tools of communication
as
worldwide Radio and Television Broadcasts
emanating
from satellites encircling the earth 23,000 miles up in space.
The
fact that the technology is available to spread mass deception is itself
a "sign"
of
the season just preceding the return of Jesus Christ.
It
all became possible during the generation of the fig tree, i.e. the Baby
Boomer generation.
However,
the Word of God gives us explicit instructions
as
to how we are to handle preachers, teachers, ministers, pastors, evangelists
and televangelists.
TRY
THEM,
by
checking them out in the scriptures to see whether or not they are OF GOD!
Do
it just like the Bereans did in Acts 17:11 after they listened to the Apostle
Paul.
Here's
how they checked him out:
"These
were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in
that they received the word with all readiness of mind,
and
searched the scriptures daily,
whether
those things were so.
Do
not believe anyone,
even
this pastor,
until
you have checked their teachings against the scriptures.
1
John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
A
false prophet means a "pretended foreteller".
That
can certainly be one who pretends that God foretold him or her
that
someone out there in TV land has a hernia,
and
God is healing him RIGHT NOW!
pseudoprophetes,
psyoo-dop-rof-ay'-tace, Greek 5578; from Greek 5571 (pseudes) and Greek
4396 (prophetes); a spurious prophet, i.e. pretended foreteller or religious
impostor :- false prophet.
Christianity
has been greatly damaged and subjected to much scoffing and ridicule by
the non-believer,
who
perhaps could be converted if he or she heard the Word of God taught intelligently
line by line,
in
context, instead of seeing goof-balls tell them to place their hands on
their TV monitor
and
receive a miraculous healing.
If
one is willing to follow such a command,
surely
they can be inspired to call an 800 #
where
operators are standing by with their Visa machines.
It
is shameful and a sham.
Study
the 13th chapter of Ezekiel to find what our Father thinks about it
and
wants His watchmen to say about it:
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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